domestic violence

Dylan Farrow is an author, mother, activist, and the survivor at the heart of the Emmy-nominated docuseries, Allen v. Farrow. She'll be this year's keynote speaker for The Women's Center annual EmPower Luncheon. Ahead of the event, Farrow joins Lake Effect's Audrey Nowakowski to discuss her advocacy work.

The man arrested and charged in the Waukesha Christmas parade incident left the scene of a domestic dispute minutes before he drove into the parade route, killing six people and wounding more than 60 others. Angela Mancuso, the executive director of The Women's Center in Waukesha, addresses the connection between domestic abuse and acts of mass violence.

Since 2009, Team Teal 365 and founder Sam Collier has been working in Milwaukee to educate, advocate for and support survivors of sexual assault.

Every year more than 3 million women in the U.S. are abused by their intimate partners and more than 1,200 are killed by their abusers.Research has found…

WUWM is partnering with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee PBS and the Milwaukee Public Library on an initiative we call Listen MKE. Its goal: help…

The shooting deaths of four teenagers and a 41-year-old in a Milwaukee home on Monday left people feeling heartbroken. Police are still investigating and…

While Wisconsin is under a safer-at-home order to slow the spread of the coronavirus, the home may not be a safe place for people living with domestic…

National statistics indicate that nearly one in five women have experienced rape or attempted rape at some point in their lives.While April is Sexual…

A few years ago, author Paul McComas and singer-songwriter Maya Kuper created Unplugged: A Survivor’s Story in Scenes and Songs. It’s based on Paul’s…

Last year, the number of people who lost their lives to domestic violence in Wisconsin fell - from 55 to 43. Yet those involved in fighting the problem…